What Does Luke 2:41 Mean?
And his parents went to Jerusalem every year for the feast of the Passover.
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Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
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King James Version
Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.THE KEY
The feast turns remembrance into a rhythm: the family returns to it year after year.
THE MEANING
You meet a family whose life moves in a returning rhythm: every year they go to Jerusalem for Passover. The feast gathers journey, place, and remembrance into one repeated practice.
THE ROOT
ἑορτῇ
heortē
GROWS FROM
ἑορτ-
The Greek stem ἑορτ- (heort-) names a feast or festival.
English “feast” can sound like a single event, while the Greek word family also includes the act of keeping or celebrating a feast. Here the annual journey is repeated participation in a shared observance.
ALSO GROWS
heortazō: to keep or celebrate a feast
ἑορτάζω
This verb shares the ἑορτ- stem and makes the feast an enacted celebration, not only a named occasion.
heortasmos: feast observance or celebration
ἑορτασμός
This related noun names the observance itself, echoing the yearly return described in the verse.
THE PATTERN
A shared sacred memory remains present through repeated return and participation.
And this day will be for you a remembrance. You will keep it as a feast to the LORD throughout your generations, a statute for the ages.Three times in a year all your males shall be seen before the face of the LORD your God in the place he will choose, at the feast of unsoured bread, at the feast of weeks, and at the feast of booths. They shall not be seen before the face of the LORD empty.For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you show the Lord's death until he comes.THE THREAD
And this day will be for you a remembrance. You will keep it as a feast to the LORD throughout your generations, a statute for the ages.The Greek translation of Exodus uses the ἑορτ- (heort-, feast) word family in the command to keep Passover as a memorial. The shared root shows the yearly journey as memory carried forward through repeated observance.
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